Aug/090
Cocaine use increasing among women
To combat stress, anxiety and even the women take refuge more and more often in cocaine. This revealed the figure during the conference “The other side of coca” held at the Catholic University of Milan. It is the psychologist who said Gabriella Gilli, professor of psychology of art and personality psychology at the University of Milan. The consumption of coca is growing among younger students and among career women who are taking on a drug to deal with occasional stress, fatigue, anxiety, but also fears and insecurities of the commitments of work and study. Besides providing an illusory solution, warns the professor from Milan, taking occasional cocaine exposes the risk of developing a true dependence from which it is then difficult to get out.
The figure is in addition to those, already quite alarming to see the dramatic increase in cocaine use in our country: the consumers of cocaine rose from 700 thousand in 2005 to 850 thousand in 2007 while decreasing the age of new addicts. Consumption is also a habitual or less of cocaine, a phenomenon that becomes more and more interested in a cross-population, unlike in the past that regardless of income and of social origin. Whereas once the cocaine was in fact considered “rich stuff”, mostly diffuse, so it was believed, in the world of entertainment and fashion, is now no longer so in part because of its cost still lower. Estimates of concern for the future then come from the Department of ASL addiction in Milan in 2010, according to which the consumption of coca could increase up to 40%. For the time being about one million Italians between 15 and 64 will come to make use of white powder. In the meantime, we hope that institutions take really effective measures to stem the increasing consumption of all drugs, both old and new.
Aug/090
Parkour. Training metropolitan body and mind
Jumping from one building to another, climbing walls do somersaults and barrel rolls in a metropolitan context. This is the Parkour, sport somewhere between martial arts and extreme sports, founded by Frenchman David Belle who began to practice in an urban environment, the techniques he learned as a child by his father, an ex-military, playing in the woods. The name was obtained by adding a K instead of c in the French word parcour (path). Parkour is the fact in reaching a specific objective through a path established earlier, full of obstacles in this case represented by bridges, buildings, railings, steps. However, the Parkour is not simply a competition between those who jump higher or run faster, but aims to achieve mastery of body and mind to overcome obstacles that stand between us and our physical and mental goals.
Its practitioners, called traceurs, undergoing a gradual but challenging workout which does not claim that they are immediately ready for testing, but that gives them the opportunity to exceed your limits gradually. These are the only help that the traceur affonta obstacles with bare hands. More than one sport the Parkour philosophy is thus a way of life for those who want to achieve a better understanding of them and learn to overcome their fears. The sport has spread around the world especially in France and England, but also slowly taking root in our country. The French director Luc Besson has made a movie “Yamakasi, the samurai of modern times”, to see even for the spectacular stunts of traceurs.
Aug/090
The HPV vaccine also protects against other diseases genital
The vaccine against the Human Papilloma Virus also protects against other diseases of the reproductive tract in addition to cervical cancer. In three studies clearly demonstrate 18000th women between 16 and 26 years. The vaccine has proved useful in 99% of genital warts cases, in 96% of cases for the initial lesions of the cervix and even in 100% of cases for the precancerous lesions of the vulva and vagina. Study results were presented at the European Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology.